@gbwales wrote:So it's not a reconstruction at all, it's a worthless dramatisation of a/their version of events.

Pathetic.

It will be interesting to see how they portray the Portuguese police. Maybe thats why they think they will be offended. As I'm sure will be said on facebook the lines will be alive with callers saying they are talking bollox.Keystone springs to mind

Whoever heard of doing a reconstruction in a different location? What is the point? Surely a reconstruction should accurately follow the facts as known. We KNOW the disappearance did not occur in Spain.

How will they recreate the events of May 3rd with exact distances and timelines without rebuilding a Hollywood set of PDL as it was in 2007? Hey ho, lots of taxpayers money available. It will be interesting to see why they have chosen a different location, different country and actors to prove the McCanns' innocence. The purpose of a reconstruction is to elicit information from people in the vicinity of the incident - those in PDL. What possible purpose can there be for relocating the crime to Spain and appealing to countries other than Portugual?

@Tony Bennett wrote:The British taxpayer pays for DCI Andy Redwood, and his team of - now 43 - Metropoloitan Police officers.

And has done for the past 2 years and 5 months.

The licence-fee payer is paying for this BBC Crimewatch event.

In both cases, those institutions must be working to a clear agenda and strategy - and with a desired result as their common goal.

They have invested a great deal of time and resources in those efforts.

Good morning mr. Bennett,

What's your take on my suggestion that a comprehensive deal was reached this spring between the Portuguese and UK authorities; Dr Amarals walks free; the McCs ditto; while SY lays their hands on all mobile phone traffic generated from PdL 'paedophile networks' since whenever?

'The pieces of the jigsaw are now fitting together': Missing Maddie's parents 'greatly encouraged' by new mobile phone evidence as probe spreads to Holland and Germany

Scotland Yard trawled calls made by people staying in the holiday resort

The force believes evidence could shed light on Maddie's disappearance

A Crimewatch special this month will launch a new appeal for information

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As a result, the TV special will be aired on British, German and Dutch television.

It will feature an interview with the McCanns, while highlighting new leads uncovered by police.The programme will also feature a reconstruction of events in the Portuguese resort on the night Madeleine disappeared.

However, Kate and Gerry have banned the re-enactment of their daughter’s disappearance from taking place in Portugal through fear of angering the country’s police.

Instead they have allowed filming to go ahead in neighbouring Spain, with actors playing the roles of the anguished couple.

A three-year-old child actress, bearing a striking similarity to their daughter, will double as Madeleine.Crimewatch editor Joe Mather said: ‘We are very hopeful this major reconstruction, along with the substantial new lines of enquiry, will prompt viewers with vital information to get in touch with officers in the studio.’

@Cristobell wrote:So they have a 3 year old actress who bears a striking resemblance to Madeleine, for accuracy presumably, yet they are filming the reconstruction in an entirely different country. Righto.

In my opinion this is just spin from SY's announcement that there will be a reconstruction. How can they use a three yr old child in alleged reconstruction? A reconstruction is based on known events, i.e. the last time a person was definitely seen, therefore we would have to have a reconstruction of Gerry looking into the room at his beautiful daughter, in the recovery position at approx 9.10pm...

This news article bears no resemblance of what SY announced the other day, and I still believe the main news is about the analysis of the phone records.

"The couple turned down a request from Scotland Yard to be involved in the Crimewatch reconstruction as “it would be far too upsetting for them,” a family source revealed yesterday."

If that is the truth (it is the Daily Star) then I wonder what Scotland Yard made of it....parents refusing to take part in a Scotland Yard reconstruction!

Are we still in the real world, or have we entered some sort of twilight zone?

The McCanns who will do anything in the world to find their daughter, but would be too upset to take part in a reconstruction. Hmm, obviously not too upset to travel to Lisbon to scam 1.2m Euros from the detective who searched for their daughter.

And, as bad as that is, they have forbidden filming in PDL! Good heavens. So effectively they have wriggled out of the reconstruction one way or the other and their strong relationship with Redwood is thriving.

Just read the latest update on BBC news and nowhere does it say anything about the McCanns banning anything..Methinks that SY may well have phoned the editorial team and told them to change it tout suite

"The couple turned down a request from Scotland Yard to be involved in the Crimewatch reconstruction as “it would be far too upsetting for them,” a family source revealed yesterday."

If that is the truth (it is the Daily Star) then I wonder what Scotland Yard made of it....parents refusing to take part in a Scotland Yard reconstruction!

Are we still in the real world, or have we entered some sort of twilight zone?

The McCanns who will do anything in the world to find their daughter, but would be too upset to take part in a reconstruction. Hmm, obviously not too upset to travel to Lisbon to scam 1.2m Euros from the detective who searched for their daughter.

And, as bad as that is, they have forbidden filming in PDL! Good heavens. So effectively they have wriggled out of the reconstruction one way or the other and their strong relationship with Redwood is thriving.

Wonder what SY made of that then, if it is true, and it is a direct quote, which it seems to be.

But the Portuguese authorities had no problem with the reconstruction their own film crew did for 'Madeleine was here' . So why should they mind another one? I sincerely hope these spin doctors have underestimated the good people of Britain - the law is the law except in this case.

The law in medieval times used to be called the King's peace. King John wrote to the mayor of London once to say: If I give my peace to a dog,it shall be maintained inviolate.

In this case the law has neither been maintained nor remained 'inviolate.' Yet Great Britain is a democracy and has a legal code that has been an example to the rest of the world. I hope that's still worth something. If I were British, I'd be deeply concerned at this manipulation and hiding of the truth. For you now count for nothing, you no longer have a fair legal or political system.

Write to your MP (this system isn't available in my country and I would love it) and keep writing, post your comments online and in local newspapers, but take charge, insist on being heard. Your freedoms are being taken away with every new scheme to protect these people, you are being lied to, manipulated and brainwashed.

Sermon over, but I've rarely been so furious. Rise up, good people of Britain, you've nothing to lose but your freedom.

"The couple turned down a request from Scotland Yard to be involved in the Crimewatch reconstruction as “it would be far too upsetting for them,” a family source revealed yesterday."

If that is the truth (it is the Daily Star) then I wonder what Scotland Yard made of it....parents refusing to take part in a Scotland Yard reconstruction!

Are we still in the real world, or have we entered some sort of twilight zone?

The McCanns who will do anything in the world to find their daughter, but would be too upset to take part in a reconstruction. Hmm, obviously not too upset to travel to Lisbon to scam 1.2m Euros from the detective who searched for their daughter.

And, as bad as that is, they have forbidden filming in PDL! Good heavens. So effectively they have wriggled out of the reconstruction one way or the other and their strong relationship with Redwood is thriving.

Wonder what SY made of that then, if it is true, and it is a direct quote, which it seems to be.

GM flew to Portugal to do his own documentary and reconstruction, why not now??

I think after 6yrs of spin we should all be aware by now that whatever the McCanns/family/spokespoodle says, we can be sure that the opposite is true.

Nope, I think that the Mc's are currently bricking it, what with the disaster unfolding in Lisbon and the latest announcements from SY and they are spinning it all to the death in all directions in the vain hope that somehow, it's going to make a difference.

So they have either A) Banned the reconstruction taking place in Portugal in case they upset the PJ (like it ever bothered them before!) or B) are too upset for the reconstruction to take place at all!

It can't be both! But personally, I think it is totally out of their hands

Eddie and Keela alerted to items and places concerned with the McCanns - and importantly to no other items or places.

According to Eddie and Keela, the body of Madeleine McCann lay lifeless behind the sofa in Apartment 5a, clinging to the only thing from which she could derive any comfort; a soft toy called 'Cuddle cat'.

Kate's book 'madeleine', Page 219: "Did they really believe that a dog could smell the 'odour of death' three months later from a body that had been so swiftly removed?"

After forensic analysis of the 'Last Photo' there is little doubt now that the pool photo CANNOT POSSIBLY have been taken on the Thursday 3rd May, but most likely on the Sunday 29th April. So, where was Madeleine at lunchtime on Thursday?

John McCann:"This was terrible for them, Kate dressed Amelie in her sister's pyjamas and the baby said: "Maddy's jammies, where is Maddy?"Martin Roberts:"If Madeleine's pyjamas had not, in fact, been abducted then neither had Madeleine McCann."Dr Martin Roberts: A Nightwear Job

Death Toll in McCann Case

Gerry McCann called for an example to be made of 'trolls'. SKY reporter Martin Brunt doorstepped Brenda Leyland on 2 October 2014 after a 'Dossier' was handed in to Police by McCann supporters. She was then found dead in a Leicester hotel room the next day. Brenda paid the price.

Colin Shalke died suddenly in mysterious circumstances with a significant amount of morphine in his system. At the Inquest the coroner said there was no evidence as to how he had come to take morphine, and no needle mark was found.

Ex-Met DCI Andy Redwood had a "revelation moment" on BBC1's Crimewatch on 14th October 2013 when he announced that Operation Grange had eliminated the Tanner sighting - which opened up the 'window' of opportunity' from 3 mins to 45 mins, in accordance with their remit, to allow the staged abduction to happen.

Tracey Kandohla: "A McCann pal told The Sun Online: "Some of the savings have been siphoned off from the Find Maddie Fund into a fixed asset account, which financial experts have advised them to do. It can be used for purchases like buying a house or building equipment."

The McCanns, Operation Grange and the BBC are all working towards one goal - to make us keep looking at what happened (or didn't happen) on 3rd May, instead of looking at what happened days earlier. There is NO evidence of an abduction. Smithman is ALL they have got. Without that, they are sunk. No wonder Operation Grange clings on to Smithman...

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM, retired Met Commissioner: "There will be a point at which we and the Government will want to make a decision about what the likely outcome is."

Dr Gonçalo Amaral, retired PJ Coordinator: "The English can always present the conclusions to which they themselves arrived in 2007. Because they know, they have the evidence of what happened, they don't need to investigate anything. When MI5 opens their files, then we will know the truth."